David Bowie

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

English Musician

Ban Ki-moon

We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

South Korean Leader

Bettany Hughes

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If you're going to inhabit someone else's world, the very least you can do is to spend a little time in it.

Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

French Artist

Alan Ball

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

American Director

Tim Ferriss

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

American Author

Maeve Binchy

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

Irish Novelist

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Edward Carpenter

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

English Activist

Rick Moranis

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

Canadian Actor

Emphasizes relaxation, often found in cozy home settings.

Physical Comfort

A common piece of furniture in living rooms, signifies home comfort.

Home Staple

Often associated with quiet activities, like reading or knitting.

Reading Nook

Indicates someone who gives opinions without direct involvement in the activity discussed.

Passive Participation

Suggests a safe distance from the consequences of the actual actions.

Critical Distance

Armchair opinions are sometimes seen as less valid due to lack of authentic experience.

Lacks Authenticity

 Jerry's doesn't have liver in onion ice cream and it's not because they whipped some up tried it and went yuck it's because from without leaving your armchair you can simulate that flavor and say yuck before you make it let's see how your experience simulators are working let's just run a quick

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 understanding that you can get from what was involved in what they were doing in serving their country I think is much more profound than as an armchair historian of some kind these items that are here will be here until the end of time and it's important that they're

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 extend life, prevent diseases, cure debilitating ailments, reduce infant mortality and preserve our planet. But we cannot accomplish all these goals by wishful thinking with our eyes closed or by armchair speculation or by expecting salvation from empty sky.

Why I choose humanism...

 Using modular components, players select items from their library and drag them into their world. Each item, be it a wall, a solar battery or even an armchair, contains all of the information for the system to calculate costs, environmental impact

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 It's because, without leaving your armchair, you can simulate that flavor and say "yuck" before you make it. Let's see how your experience simulators are working. Let's just run a quick diagnostic before I proceed with the rest of the talk.

Why are we happy? Why...

 pondered the cosmos from their armchairs. They were not mucking around in the fossil pits or conducting messy experiments with electrical piles like the members of the British Association. The crowd grew angry and began to complain loudly.

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 All three feature the original armchair detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who uses his genius and unusual powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes that baffle the police. Poe also wrote satires of social and literary trends,

Why should you read...

 But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking

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 have been studied and pored over. Every sentence and word analyzed, in depth, by the Navy's after action report. And then of course, re-analyzed by armchair historians and hacky curse TV shows. Walk me through it.

The Disappearance of...

 So now, this idea that if we go deep within, we are irredeemably selfish, this is armchair science. There is not a single sociological study, psychological study, that's ever shown that.